RGB images and shadows

[disbellj]

Rich,

You probably remember my fuss about this years ago. It's mainly because I came from a film background. We made black-only drop shadows. But like has been said, years ago, a four-color drop shadow would have been about impossible.

Now that we deal with plates and not film, we usually output all plates if a change is made anyway. Years ago, we would have wanted to output only one piece of film for a drop shadow-only change. These days, with transparency in all Adobe programs, and even Quark, people build drop shadows themselves, which if they choose Black Ink, will give black-only drop shadows.

Main point has been made about gray balance, which is the reason we can do it these days using four-color drop shadows if we have to, and not worry about it.

The print jobs look fine if printing to G7 (or even if close to it).

Regards,

Don

Has your pressmen ever printed 4C drop shadows? After seeing how they looked printed, I quit caring if they were 4C or 1C black.

Regards,

Don